“They Used Us”
In The Thick
Futuro Media
4.9 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 14 June 2023
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
Julio and guest co-host Fernanda Santos talk about the indictment of former President Donald Trump. In our roundtable, Daniel Parra, Spanish-language editor and reporter for City Limits, and Claudia Tristán, immigration campaign director with MomsRising, join Julio to discuss challenges for migrants in NYC, Gov. Ron DeSantis’ anti-immigrant political stunt and the dangers of the asylum process.
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Photo credit: AP Photo/Christian Chavez, File
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| 0:00.0 | From Futuro Media and PRX, it's in the thick of podcasts about politics, race and culture. |
| 0:14.5 | I'm Julio Ricaloarela. |
| 0:16.4 | And I'm Fernando Santos. |
| 0:18.3 | All right, Fernando Santos. |
| 0:20.4 | So listen, another week of news, but we're only going to talk about one thing. |
| 0:25.5 | You know what we're going to talk about, President Trump and attacking democracy or the end |
| 0:31.0 | of democracy? |
| 0:32.0 | I don't know. |
| 0:33.0 | So former President Trump was federally indicted and charged last week with 37 criminal |
| 0:39.1 | accounts and the biggest charge of all those 37 criminal accounts were for retaining and |
| 0:44.6 | mishandling classified documents that contained national defense information. |
| 0:50.3 | So this is punishable under the Espionage Act by up to 10 years in prison. |
| 0:58.1 | So after being the first former president to face criminal charges when he was indicted |
| 1:02.6 | in April, former president Trump is now the first to face federal criminal charges. |
| 1:09.6 | So he had local criminal charges, right? |
| 1:12.0 | Local jurisdiction in April now, these are federal. |
| 1:15.0 | He appeared in a federal court on Tuesday afternoon. |
| 1:18.1 | Meanwhile, he's still running for president for 2024. |
| 1:21.7 | I don't even know where to begin, Fernando. |
| 1:23.4 | So I'm just going to ask you what the fuck is on your mind if I do all this? |
| 1:28.4 | Oh, my gosh, you know, a couple of things. |
| 1:33.1 | One is that gosh, we have been talking about former president Trump and the damage he has |
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